| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 段階 | だんかい | gradation, grade, stage, steps, order, class, phase |
| 手段 | しゅだん | means, way, measure |
| 段 | だん | step, stair, (flight of) steps, (row of) stitches, columns (of print); grade, rank, level; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.) |
| 値段 | ねだん | price, cost |
| 一段と | いちだんと | greater, more, further, still more |
| 段ボール | だんボール, ダンボール | (corrugated) cardboard |
| 階段 | かいだん | stairs, stairway, staircase |
| 普段 | ふだん | usual, habitual, ordinary, everyday, always |
| 一段 | いちだん | more, much more, still more, all the more; part (of a talk); Japanese verb group; first rank (in martial arts, etc.) |
| 現段階 | げんだんかい | present stage, current phase; current rank, present grade |